Barbara Jelavich (April 12, 1923 – January 14, 1995) was an American historian and writer. A prominent scholar in the field of Eastern European history, she specifically focused on the diplomatic histories of the Russian and Habsburg monarchies, the diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Balkans.
She began her academic career as a junior research historian at UC Berkeley Institute of Slavic Studies after obtaining three history degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1961, she joined the faculty at Indiana University as a lecturer before becoming a full professor in the history department in 1967. Her tenure at Indiana University continued until her retirement in 1993, she received the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History in recognition of her exceptional scholarly achievement.[1]
She made substantial contributions to scholarly literature, co-authoring or authoring 17 books that delved into the histories of Russia, the Balkans, and the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires. Collaborating with her husband, Charles, who was also a history professor emeritus at Indiana, several of her works were co-authored. Her areas of expertise encompassed Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.
^"Barbara Jelavich; Scholar and Expert On Balkans Was 71". The New York Times. 1995-01-20. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
BarbaraJelavich (April 12, 1923 – January 14, 1995) was an American historian and writer. A prominent scholar in the field of Eastern European history...
Volume 2 of History of the Balkans, BarbaraJelavich History of the Balkans: Twentieth Century, BarbaraJelavich Volume 12 of Publication series, Joint...
Serbia and Kosovo. Berghahn Books. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-84545-919-2. BarbaraJelavich (29 July 1983). History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
time, efforts are made to revive Nicholas's reputation. Historian BarbaraJelavich, on the other hand, points to many failures, including the "catastrophic...
Y. Hsu, The Rise of Modern China (1995) pp 317–325. Charles Jelavich and BarbaraJelavich, Russia and the East, 1876–1880 (1959). Gilbert, Atlas of Russian...
World War II: A Short History. Routledge. pp. 3–4. ISBN 9781315509440. BarbaraJelavich (2004). Russia and the Formation of the Romanian National State, 1821–1878...
Peoples. Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-521-27485-2. BarbaraJelavich (29 July 1983). History of the Balkans. Cambridge University Press...
Last Resort. Edward Elgar. p. 4. ISBN 978-1849807029. Charles Jelavich and BarbaraJelavich, The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804–1920...
Ramadan War. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-275-98601-8. BarbaraJelavich (1983). History of the Balkans. Cambridge University Press. p. 349...
ISBN 978-0-914710-05-9. Retrieved 23 December 2011. Charles Jelavich, BarbaraJelavich (2012). The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804–1920...
Concise History of Bulgaria. (2005). ISBN 0-521-56183-3 Jelavich, Charles and BarbaraJelavich. The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804–1920...
"Captain", as Codreanu was now known. According to American historian BarbaraJelavich, the movement "at first supported no set ideology, but instead emphasized...
188–194 "Moskauer Deklaration 1943 und die alliierte Nachkriegsplanung". BarbaraJelavich – Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1815–1986, Cambridge University...
Jelavich (born 1954) is an author and Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the son of historians Barbara and Charles Jelavich....
national states, 1804-1920, Volume 8, A History of East Central Europe, BarbaraJelavich, University of Washington Press, 1986, pp. 136-137 ISBN 0-295-96413-8...
ISBN 978-3-8258-8789-6. Chris Ward, Stalin's Russia (2nd ed. 1999) pp. 148–188. BarbaraJelavich, St.Petersburg and Moscow: Czarist and Soviet Foreign Policy, 1814–1974...
The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 2, 1908, p. 408. Charles Jelavich, BarbaraJelavich. The establishment of the Balkan national states, 1804–1920, 2000...
2006, pp. 35–36. Gawrych 2006, pp. 34–35. Gawrych 2006, pp. 30–31. BarbaraJelavich (29 July 1983). History of the Balkans. Cambridge University Press...
both were demanding greater independence from the Constantinople. BarbaraJelavich states: "The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina [...] were becoming...
Tsardom, more pious than all previous kingdoms, is the Third Rome" BarbaraJelavich. Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806–1914. Cambridge University Press...
other countries to join in return for territorial gains. However, as BarbaraJelavich observes, "Throughout the war Russian actions were carried out without...
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